Memo to the media: Fox News is now the Opposition Party »
Posted By Progressive 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Political Opinion
Rupert Murdoch's cable cabal is now, first and foremost, a political entity. Fox News has transformed itself into the Opposition Party of the Obama White House, which, of course, is unprecedented for a media company in modern-day America. That partisan embrace means the news media have to expand beyond typing up Fox News-ratings-are-up and the White-House-is-angry stories, and it needs to start treating the cable channel for what it is: a partisan animal.
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hyperbola1 month, 3 weeks ago
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Remember that Murdoch is a zionist and that he has played this game in the UK for several decades now. The world got stuck with the hypocrite Tony Blair when British zionists decided it was time to get a favorable government in the UK and Murdoch and the rest of the zionist press began supporting him.
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UK newspaper wins details of how Blair consulted arch zionist Rupert Murdoch 3 times before invading Iraq
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message41...
...the UK's top quality newspaper, the Independent, today won a victory over the UK government which sought to suppress the interaction between Rupert Murdoch and Tony Blair. Why would a government seek to hide this?
Well, today's edition publishes as many details as can be published (the UK government has blocked many details) under the freedom of information act. And they are a bombshell. Blair ran off to Murdoch three times in the days before the Iraq invasion and consulted the world's most notorious zionist 9 times during his premiership.
This is proof in print of the huge involvement that Zionism had in the war. The fact that they fought so hard to cover this up shows that this involvement was both secret and not in the main players' interests to be disclosed. That implies that this relationship was in Zionist interests as the UK government, if it had been acting in the public interest would have nothing to hide.
Moreover, these disclosures prove that the alliance was personal.
This proves that Iraq at the very least was an invasion that was based on zionist motives, possibly inspired by and controllled from the movement......
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simonsez1 month, 3 weeks ago
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pokydoke1 month, 3 weeks ago
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FNC is way beyond disagreeing it is patently disagreeable. I can understand disagreement when you have solid facts on your side. Disagreeing with the stimulus package is a point that disagreement makes sense. FNC uses misinformation, fabrication and outright lies to support it's agenda. That is not disagreeing that's supporting a political agenda, nothing more nothing less.
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Goppy1 month, 3 weeks ago
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Yes ... that's been the plan of the Modern Republicans for quite some time.
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The way it works is this ... They scream ... "All media is biased against us ... we DEMAND SPECIAL TREATMENT .... and if we don't get it ... exactly the way we DEMAND IT ... we are going to mount an national campaign of disinformation ... and there's NOTHING you can do about it."
And ... over the past 30 years ... that's EXACTLY the way it went down.
Somewhere in the middle of that ... Rupert Murdoch realized he could capitalize on this highly motivated ... highly aggressive ... astonishingly self righteous collective ... and create a station just for them.
It's like the Perfect Storm ... for the destruction of Honesty, Honor, Judiciousness, and Credibility.
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I do admit though, simonsez ... y'all stayed with the plan ... y'all were disciplined ... and y'all kept your eyes on the prize ... in your fanatical effort to wrest complete and total control at the exposure your Ideology received.
Now ... there's absolutely NO ONE that will stand up to y'all with any kind of objectivity ... of course ... this will also lead to the ultimate undoing of your Ideology.
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hyperbola1 month, 3 weeks ago
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Fact is Simon that the "israel-firsters" own and occupy BOTH our political parties. Murdoch is simply trying to play the same game in the US that he has been playing for a long time in the UK.
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The Labour Friends Of Israel
The Labour Friends Of Israel are highly significant on the current global political scene. They do not reveal how many Labour MPs are members, but they have sent at least 50 to Israel since 1997. Since 1994 they have had a scheme in place to elect and keep in power a Zionist puppet named Tony Blair. This is how the plan played out.
In 1994 Tony Blair was at a dinner party held by the second-in-command at the Israeli Embassy in London, Gideon Meir, who would go on to become the Information Chief of Israel's Foreign Ministry. Meir introduced Tony Blair to a Zionist businessman named Michael Levy. Levy agreed to use his influence to get Blair elected so long as Blair agreed never to to act in any way against Israeli interests, whilst he was leader of the party.
Blair agreed and as a result Levy became chief fundraiser for Blair, and co-incidentally of course just before the 1997 election in which Blair became Prime Minister, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. (which dominates the British Media) lavished support for Blair whilst attacking the Conservative Party on a daily basis. Thus Blair was elected in a landslide.
Here is an excellent article on the Labour Friends Of Israel, and you can find the MPs and Lords on their Committee here. .....
http://www.iamthewitness.com/ZionistControlOfBrita...
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fiftynine1 month, 3 weeks ago
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If this country ever again allows the neocons to have power we are doomed.If they ever get it again they will never relinquish that power.Any idea of fair elections will be gone and we will become a country ran by crazed fundamentalist (ala' cheney and limpy)..The same types we profess to be against and wage war on..
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hyperbola1 month, 3 weeks ago
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ZionCons (NeoCons is a euphemism for not calling the beast by its name) would be a better description of what we have to weed out of our government, politics and media (as well as the equivalent israel-firsters in the Democratic party). Murdoch is, of course, one of their main players and it is no accident that he is mounting a campaign against Obama right now.
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The campaign is orchestrated from Israel. Their media is able to report things that are severely censored in our corporate media.
'U.S. furious over Israeli incitement against Obama'
The U.S. administration is furious over Israeli incitement against President Barack Obama, Democratic congressmen close to Obama told an Israeli source who returned from a visit to Washington this week.
The congressmen even hinted that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been personally involved.
The source, who met in Washington with administration officials and members of Congress, told Haaretz he was stunned by the level of anger there over attempts to portray Obama to the American public as an enemy of Israel because of his efforts to restart peace talks and freeze settlement construction.
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"There are people here who are playing with fire by damaging our relationship with the U.S.," the source said. ....
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Endoscopy1 month, 3 weeks ago
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This from the party that stole the senate election in Minnesota by stuffing the ballot boxes on the hand pass through the votes. No embarrassment that more votes were counted than votes cast in a lot of precincts. And you have the gall to talk about fair elections.
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luvfreedom11 month, 3 weeks ago
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hyperbola1 month, 3 weeks ago
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Rupert is just another cog in the "israel-firster" attempts to control and bleed America to protect zionist crimes against humanity in the mideast.. His current "campaign" fits in perfectly with the "new campaigns" of right-wing racist extremists in both Israel and the US.
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The purpose is to try to "ensure" that Obama kowtows to the israel-firsters. What is ironic is how many of our own "extremist fringe" can be duped into treason without even realizing they are being manipulated.
How Low Will Israel Stoop in Its Propaganda War?
http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/09/17/how-low-...
'The Israel Project', a US media advocacy group, has produced a revised training manual to help the worldwide Zionist movement win the propaganda war, keep their ill-gotten territorial gains and persuade international audiences to accept that their crimes are necessary and conform to 'shared values' between Israel and the civilized West.
The manual teaches how to justify the slaughter, the ethnic cleansing, the land-grabbing, the cruelty and the blatant disregard for international law and UN resolutions, and make it all smell sweeter with a liberal squirt of the aerosol of persuasive language. It is designed to hoodwink us ignorant and gullible Americans and Europeans into believing that we actually share values with the racist regime in Israel and that its abominable behaviour is therefore deserving of our support.
And the manual will no doubt serve as a communications primer for the army of cyber-scribblers that Israel’s Ministry of Dirty Tricks is recruiting to spread Zionism’s poison across the internet....
And Here’s the Rationale Behind it.... Israel does not want peace. It has never met its peace agreement obligations. Every action is directed at keeping the conflict going until the Israelis have stolen enough land and established enough 'facts on the ground' - Jews-only settlements, highways, disconnected Palestinian bantustans - to enable them to redraw the map to suit their expansionist agenda and make the occupation permanent.
Note how Israel’s strategy is almost totally dependent on the false idea that they are victims of terror and western nations need to huddle together with Israel for mutual protection. Fortunately, level-headed people are beginning to realize who the terrorists really are.
It is surely obvious by now that allowing parallels to be drawn between Israel and America only serves to increase the world’s hatred of America. US citizens need to wake up to this, and British citizens should avoid falling into the same trap.
Rockets, Bombs and Atrocities: the Language of Peace....
Regev’s Pearls of Wisdom. But How Safe is the Region under the Threat of Israel’s Nukes?....
The Holy City is Not Up for Grabs.... -
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hyperbola1 month, 3 weeks ago
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Get the Name-Calling Right....
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Our Obligation to Respect and Promote Human Rights
The Israel Project describes itself as “devoted to educating the press and the public about Israel while promoting security, freedom and peace”. It provides journalists, leaders and opinion-formers with “accurate information about Israel”.
However its propaganda manual, which runs to 116 pages, is an unpleasant piece of work which recycles many of the discredited techniques used by the advertising industry before standards of honesty, decency and truthfulness were brought in to protect the public.
And it serves to undermine with clever words the inalienable rights pledged by the UN and the world’s civilized nations to all peoples, including the Palestinians.
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EDWARDIII1 month, 3 weeks ago
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The things that were being said about Bush throughout his administration opened the door to presidential side-taking. No reasonable person can blame FOX for it. And before Bush there was Nixon. Obama's personal friend Chauvez has the formula for ending the problem. You just involk government control over the media. You tell the people it is in the interest of truth or diversity or Allah or what ever value the people hold strongly. You do it through vaguely written legislation that can be broadly read, and after the fact you pillory the former opposition in the newly established government press. All this is elementary dictatorship 101.
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And what will we do after Obama is replaced by Oconnor or Omally or Ohoulahan? What becomes of the country when all power is in one drawer and one person has the key?
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hyperbola1 month, 3 weeks ago
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More worrisome than that is having foreign propagandists trying to rig US politics for the benefit of a foreign county. This has been going on for a very long time in the US, but is never mentioned by our "media".
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The news media scam
Here's a quotation that should awaken every American: "The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology." (Michael Parenti, political scientist and author)
Have you ever heard of Edward Bernays? No? That is understandable. He never sought the limelight, but he is undoubtedly one of most influential people of the Twentieth Century. When he died in 1995, the New York Times ran an obituary on him, calling him the "Father of public relations." He truly was.
He was hired to be the chief adviser to William (Bill) Paley, head of CBS radio in 1928. From that humble beginning, CBS News became the dominant news organization in the world for many years. And the elevation of CBS News to that lofty position can justly be ascribed to the amazing public relations abilities of Edward Bernays.
...Unfortunately, Bernays not only sought to report the news but to manipulate the public into accepting what CBS News thought the public should accept. In other words, he sought to brainwash us.
Think that's crazy? Listen to what Bernays said in his own book, Propaganda, 1928:
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country . . . we’re dominated by the relatively small number of persons . . . it is they who pull the wires which control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world. (Propaganda, Liveright Publishing Company, New York, 2005, excerpts from pp. 9-19)
Do you like the idea of being "manipulated," having someone "pull the wires [to] control the public mind?" Or do you think that they can't manipulate us? And what do you think of his statement that the brain-washers "constitute an invisible government?" I think it's scary. But it happens today all the time.
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hyperbola1 month, 3 weeks ago
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Or, if you wonder why CNN has so declined in quality, consider this.
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......Ted Turner's Lesson: "Be very careful with whom you merge."
When Ted Turner, the Gentile media maverick, made a bid to buy CBS in 1985, there was panic in the media boardrooms across the country. Turner had made a fortune in advertising and then built a successful cable-TV news network, CNN, with over 70 million subscribers.
Although Turner had never taken a stand contrary to Jewish interests, he was regarded by William Paley and the other Jews at CBS as uncontrollable: a loose cannon who might at some time in the future turn against them. Furthermore, Jewish newsman Daniel Schorr, who had worked for Turner, publicly charged that his former boss held a personal dislike for Jews.
To block Turner's bid, CBS executives invited billionaire Jewish theater, hotel, insurance, and cigarette magnate Laurence Tisch to launch a "friendly" takeover of CBS. From 1986 to 1995 Tisch was the chairman and CEO of CBS, removing any threat of non-Jewish influence there. Subsequent efforts by Ted Turner to acquire CBS were obstructed by Gerald Levin's Time Warner, which owned nearly 20 percent of CBS stock and had veto power over major deals. But when his fellow Jew Sumner Redstone offered to buy CBS for $34.8 billion in 1999, Levin had no objections. ....
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Beau78901 month, 3 weeks ago
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"The things that were being said about Bush throughout his administration opened the door to presidential side-taking."
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You don't remember what was being said about Bill Clinton?
As for the rest of your comment, it's pure fiction. Government already can control the media if it wishes--the FCC can make media do whatever it wants. But it doesn't.
Your "dictatoship 101" fears are entirely speculative. Obama has not even made a move toward doing anything you fear. And answering Fox News Channel's lies is a far cry from censorship. -
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Bacalao1 month, 3 weeks ago
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"You just involk government control over the media. You tell the people it is in the interest of truth or diversity or Allah or what ever value the people hold strongly."
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I agree you should use things like the war, Terrorism, Getting OBL, Patriotism, Capitalism, the free market, ETC......
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albionperfides1 month, 3 weeks ago
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Murdoch has now switched his newspapers' support to the Tories in the UK. He is in this strong position in the UK because the Thatcher Government allowed him to take over the the parts of the UK press as and when he wished. Thank you Mrs Thatcher. Perhaps you should think of revoking his US citizenship and let him be what he truly is, an Australian.
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hyperbola1 month, 3 weeks ago
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It is curious how easily ultra-zionist israel-firsters get citizenship in the US.
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Apart from Murdoch, another prime Australian example is Martin Indyck, who is a good indication of how long israel-firsters have been controlling US foreign policy. Under zionist control through a zionist organization misnamed as the "Democratic Leadership Council", Clinton appointed this Aussie ultra-zionist as Ambassador to Israel and then as one of the chief "negotiators" (fraudsters) in the Camp David talks.
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dBergeron1 month, 3 weeks ago
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And this is bad because of what reason? It certainly seemed to me that CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, and PBS were the opposition to the Bush White House, weren't they? So, it would seem that the scale is still a bit heavier on the left side than it is on the right, eh? You libs would love to shut down the right. But, isn't that in itself a bit unpatriotic? The voices of opposition are to be held in high regard, according to Hillary Clinton during here presidential campaign. The ugly double standard is surely in effect with this one!
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djn3nunez31 month, 3 weeks ago
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seemed to me that CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, and PBS were the opposition to the Bush White House, weren't they?
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No in fact they were cheerleading right up there with Faux. Until every single rationale for invading and occupying iraq turned out to have been "Fixed". Then of course they still didn;t report the truth about how the invasion cause a civil war and great strife in Iraq.
Please name names. Who has said they want Fox News shut down.
They are, after all, the propaganda arm of the pseudo-con movement.
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Progressive1 month, 3 weeks ago
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icono11 month, 3 weeks ago
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Murdock is just making money being a buzz killer. Seems to work though, for FNC's ratings are way up. That equals large sums of money from advertising also. Who ever thought a station that 'offers an opposing political opinion' could be so popular and profitable in the age of 'sweetness and light' via The 0 Man and his smooth rhetoric.
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Yet on the other hand;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no9fpKVXxCc
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lloydm651 month, 3 weeks ago
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The only thing I said about Bill,and Hillary was they were,and are pathological liars.Bill himself governed the only way he could.He has tried to claim recognition for welfare reform.It would be a stretch to even hint that he was for it.He lied about watching black churches being torched,and lets not forget the little fat girl,he lied about daily ,and Hillary said on a news outlet that if it proved to be true it would big blow to Bill,the trouble was Bill already experienced the big blow,and the proof was on the dress.So Hillary being the liar she was,and probably still is blamed it on someone else,another lie.
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Daylight1 month, 3 weeks ago
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America is being directed to concentrate on perceived enemies who are about to destroy America but the Zionists the true enemies of America they are like the silent killer disease the cancer, if failed to diagnose the danger in its early stage can cause death.
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Om1 month, 3 weeks ago
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Hopefully Murdoch's plan by next summer to charge for the content on all his news websites will be his Waterloo in his business venture into the so-called news business. Freedom of the press only exists on the Internet. Keep it free. Keep reporting what's going on. Let the people decide for themselves.
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Tangent0011 month, 3 weeks ago
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Lemme get this straight: An admittedly partisan non-profit places a full-page ad about General 'Betray-us' and they get an official sanction by the Senate (including 22 Democrats), but a for-profit media giant touting itself as a 'fair and balanced' NEWS organization can get away with calling Obama a white-hating racist and accusing one of his appointees of being a child molester with impunity?
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